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For 20,336 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 61
Highest review score: 100 Short Cuts
Lowest review score: 0 Gummo
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9,413 out of 20336
  2. Mixed: 8,455 out of 20336
  3. Negative: 2,468 out of 20336
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  1. Dirt Music
    Every so often, a movie comes along that isn’t particularly good, yet somehow gets to you — even as your eyes start to roll, they can’t look away. “Dirt Music” is one of those, a strangely fascinating delivery system for so much visual beauty that its flaws scrabble to gain a purchase.
  2. Always in Season
    Olive weaves these stories together with fluidity and purpose, but the ideas of Always in Season sometimes crowd one another out.
  3. A German Youth
    The pace is too rapid for any nonexpert to absorb or glean the significance of all the details, which Périot generally leaves unexplained. But this documentary is fitfully thought-provoking, and particularly good at illustrating political fault lines of the time.
  4. The Last Full Measure
    The movie is written and directed, with undeniable sincerity, by Todd Robinson. While its story mechanics are creaky, the valor of Pitsenbarger is evoked cogently, in well-executed battle sequences
  5. Sink or Swim
    A gentle, genial dip into a pool of midlife despair.
  6. The Appaloosa
    Essentially a film of mordant feeling in which violence is always just below the surface of pokerfaced bluffing and fake Old-World Spanish courtesy.
  7. Harpoon
    It’s a sparse, nasty little thriller.
  8. Citizen K
    Although the film has long, engaging stretches, there is something slightly unsatisfying about the whole.
  9. Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn
    Long stretches are not a personal reckoning but an overview; many details overlap with “Where’s My Roy Cohn?” from last year, although the clips here are at least as good. It is also more sympathetic to Cohn than either Cohn’s reputation or the familial animosity would suggest.
  10. One, Two, Three
    That's about the nature of the picture. It is one with which you can laugh--with its own impudence toward foreign crises--while laughing at its rowdy spinning jokes.
  11. Experiment in Terror
    It takes more than two hours to come to a solution of the problem in this film. They would do it in one hour on TV, and it would probably be every bit as good.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Cat from Outer Space
    The Cat From Outer Space, is likely to keep the under-14's amused, at least if supplemented by plenty of popcorn.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Gus
    This is a decently average Disney film, with a few funny parts and other parts where you would agree to smile if you could.
  14. On the President's Orders
    The thesis of On the President’s Orders isn’t terribly original, but in a needlessly roundabout way, it makes its case that these killings are not the work of isolated individuals, but the product of a top-down culture that stems from Duterte's assent.
  15. Return from Witch Mountain
    The two young principals are serviceable, but not nearly as lively as some of their co-stars — Christian Juttner, as the tallest Earthquake, steals virtually every scene he doesn't share with Miss Davis or Mr. Lee.
  16. The Strongest Man in the World
    A Walt Disney comedy based on the old magic-formula story that's served the company well through thick (The Absent-Minded Professor) and thin (The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes). The new film, which opened at theaters throughout the city yesterday, is nowhere near as funny as the first but a lot better than the second.
  17. Farming
    Farming is a mystery movie in which the author investigates himself — and doesn’t fully share the answers.
  18. The Journey of Natty Gann
    If The Journey of Natty Gann were only a speedier, more energetic movie, Natty might have real staying power.
  19. Ximei
    This isn’t a groundbreaking documentary, but it does pay its subjects the ultimate courtesy, treating them as officials have not: as fully rounded human beings.
  20. Blank Check
    It's easy to see why this cheerfully dopey film has struck pay dirt.
  21. The Trial of the Chicago 7
    I don’t think, on balance, that this is a very good movie. It’s talky and clumsy, alternating between self-importance and clowning. But it’s also not a movie that can be easily shaken off. Partly this is an accident of timing.
  22. First Kid
    A clean-cut, affable family film without objectionable elements, beyond the brief and needless violence that complicates its finale.
  23. Queen of Hearts
    When the movie isn’t straining, the go-for-broke performances of Dyrholm and Lindh give it a specific, unusual tension — like the feeling you get when you’ve over-tightened a corkscrew and know the matter around it is about to crumble.
  24. To Be of Service
    Though To Be of Service skips over specifics, the big picture is clear, and its overriding point well made: These dogs are saving the lives of those who’ve sacrificed so much. Every person profiled here deserves an immense amount of respect. Every animal, too.
  25. Until the End of the World
    The longer it gets, the loopier it gets. [19 Jan 1992, p.13]
    • The New York Times
  26. 16 Bars
    The individual stories have moments of power, but 16 Bars feels abbreviated. It only sometimes transcends its role as an awareness tool and reveals the texture and detail that long-term documentary filming can produce.
  27. Swiss Family Robinson
    The uniformly competent performance of the cast make it a moderately entertaining, if rather somnolently paced, story-book film.
  28. Mutiny on the Bounty
    Has its ups and downs. Bronislau Kaper has provided a highly chromatic musical score that is consistent with the size, the sweeping romance and the eventual lumpishness of this film.
  29. Fright Night
    Though Mr. Holland's handling of his stars is successful enough to establish him as a newcomer with promise, his material here is uneven and often flat.
  30. A Dog Called Money
    Harvey is detail-oriented, good-humored, intimately involved and encouraging of her fellow musicians. The tunes she crafts for the resulting record are intricate and eclectic, but still honor the raw directness of her early work.
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